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An ambitious conservation plan that melds science, culture, economics, and local knowledge could open our wallets for trees that will pay back in many ways for a very long time.
John Reid at Yale 360. Thinking Long-Term: Why We Should Bring Back Redwood Forests
Only 5 percent of the redwood forests that once stretched across coastal Northern California have never been logged. An initiative to restore these forests is gaining momentum, aided by research showing that redwoods store more aboveground carbon than any forest on Earth.
Reforesting politics means that one single tree, one single person is only as strong as the forest or community. We need to bring an ethics of care and solidarity, beauty and poetry to every place where the necro-patriarchal machine is rapidly and rapaciously digging its extractive and murderous claws. It means honoring the generosity and wisdom of Indigenous women who protect our lives while risking their own.
V (formerly Eve Ensler) in The Guardian. Indigenous women are showing us how to fight for environmental and human rights
During a recent trip to Brazil, I saw how Indigenous women activists there have completely changed the political landscape
via the essential Pueo Eyes
Efforts have been underway to restore Mokuʻula in Lahaina and revitalize its history as a Native Hawaiian sacred place. These efforts, however, will be dramatically impacted by the devastation of the Lahaina fire.
Rosalyn R. LaPier in The Conversation. Native Hawaiian sacred sites have been damaged in the Lahaina wildfires – but, as an Indigenous scholar writes, their stories will live on
This is an important article. First of all it's in The Conversation so it can be shared widely. I hope many of us will talk about it. In this time of extinction out thinking must shift. To save life an appreciation for the sacred is necessary.
We want to stay here. We don't want to be displaced any more than we already have been.
So I strongly urge all of our people to come together and realize that we need to push our state officials to make sure and potentially even create policy to make it impossible for outside entities to come in and start grabbing.
Paele Kiakona in conversation with Jeremy Lee at KITV4. 'Do not sell to anybody outside' Lahaina community leader
While confined to reservations, the 1883 Religious Crimes Code attempted to strip Native people of First Amendment protections of freedom of religion by banning ceremonies and religious practices. This made it legal for Indian reservation agents and superintendents to confiscate or destroy Native religious objects.
At the same time, Native children as young as four years old were institutionally kidnapped by government and Christian entities with the intent to reeducate them towards assimilation, so that they could become “good Americans.” In these boarding schools, Native children were forced to abandon their Native customs and languages. Under the care of the U.S. government and Christian guardianship, thousands of Native children died with no accountability to their parents.
Dennis Zotigh in Smithsonian Magazine. Native Rights Are Human Rights
Remembering the humanity of Indigenous peoples on International Human Rights Day
Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to “unforget” our history.
Patty Krawecat daanis.ca. Becoming Kin